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Howtoo: AutoHotKey Tutorial

It’s a steal at a tenner, get it whilst you can.

Forgive me Mother for I have sinned, it’s been just under one year since my last confusion, but I have been busy: being retired does that to you.

Heads up, .. if anyone wants a half decent 2.4G wireless keyboard and mouse, superb gentle key travel, and nice big keys as well to hammer away on. [ here’s the one in question from Amazon ]. It’ll never be a mechanical blue standard, but is good for what it is.

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Now, I don’t know what type of build specifications that saw it constructed with a (Scroll Lock) on an 87 keyboard layout? – Nor why any of the right hand keys are laid out as they are, but they are! – (Pause Break) included.

Below is the AHK file to correct it to some semblance of normality.
Btw, don’t included the ——— etc ———- in your text file, (and yes), some plonker did, and then wondered by it ain’t working with errors popping up all over.

——— sof ——–

; – #KeyHistory used for debugging, .. leave as a rem statement,
; which is what a semi-colon does.
CapsLock::Ctrl

Being as there’s no spare keys for the delete key, I’ve shoved it under the backspace where I feel comfortable with it being,

The [ # ] gate and [ ~ ] tidle are where those wired [ ¬ ] and [ ` ] are, and I for one will never use them at all.

I will also never use the (Insert Key), so have used it as a spare Apps-Key next to the Alternative Alt Key as well, (roughly where the AppKeys is found), and until I can think of something else to do with it, .. at least it won’t be overwriting my work as I type.

.. And as can be seen; that wretched CapsLock key was the first one that I killed off.

Tutor time: how to find out what key is, .. (HAS) being pressed on your keyboard.

Run it in the AHK interpreter, (ie: right click and, .. RUN SCRIPT).
It might be in hidden ICONS, but find the script running, it’ll be a GREEN ‘H’.
Right click on it and, .. [ OPEN IT ]

You’ll be in something that looks an awful lot like Microsoft Notepad Editor, it ain’t.
Press VIEW, -> go down to HOT KEY HISTORY.
Outside the editor, then press they keys you’re trying to identity.
Go back into the Not Microsoft Editor and press F5 (to refresh), your keystrokes will have been recorded, .. along with Hex and VK numbers.